Fallon had Don Lemon and NAACP’s Derrick Johnson on his first show back after blackface video resurfaced (via toofab)
It might be easy to imagine Fallon attempting to simply brush his blackface incident back under the rug amid these other more pressing concerns. And yet, that's why he felt this time that was exactly what heIn fact, he pointedly went against the advice of some of those around him by not only addressing it in last week's tweet, but by kicking off his return show with a very genuine and heartfelt apology and totally reshaping"The Tonight Show" after it.
Gone were the silly games and light chatter with celebrities. His first guest, who came on shortly after Fallon addressed his own problematic past with racial insensitivity, was the president of the NAACP, Derrick Johnson who helped him face his own past and talk about what he and other white people should be doing now.
Fallon isn't shying away from the mistakes he's made and he's not going to remain silent because, as he said,"I realized that the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me and the rest of us are doing, staying silent. We need to say something. We need to keep saying something."
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